7/7/7 Seven's Day - Daikoku Futo

Daikoku is guaranteed to draw a crowd and with 500 or more Rx7's in SA, FC and FD and other forms of rotary cars, this event was huge.

R-Magic brought a few nicely tuned machines.

Amongst private owners, tuners like Zimax, Scoot, Amemiya, R-Magic and amazing customs, the Newera FD looked right at home.

As you walk in between the Vertex wide bodies and ex and current Auto Salon machines, race cars and road cars, you realise how passionate people are with their rotary vehicles. I wish mine had been ready.

It would have looked like this one.

For me the re-finished Scoot 4 rotor was the best there and was even better than before. With this level of detail work, few can match it.



Event's like these give you hundreds of ideas

about what works and what doesn't.

What looks driveable and not.

As we stupidly contemplated heading down to Osaka with the guys from Scoot, we realised in the last two days we didn't have much sleep and although Osaka would be special, it will very similar scene. Sometimes you can see toooo many FDs. hehe.

20b Super Greddy brought Ama-san to the event.

Russ

Piers' Sunline Racing FD

Piers certainly loves cars, with a couple of pimped out soarers, a full carbon body GTR and this FD, his garage is the envy of many. (Update FD now Sold.)

This car has been a progression of sorts but remains first and formost to be a fast streetable FD. Sure it can lap Aida Ti circuit in the 1.40 region, but it does this through finesse rather than raw power as it still operates on twins which makes it a perfect demonstration of what can be done with a lightweight machine.

Piers enlisted the help of Sunline Racing in his hometown of Okayama to perform daily maintenance of his new FD and it just went from there, an RE-Amemiya GT AD Widebody kit + Cwest front bar and lights. Rear diffuser and Sunline Cooling Bonnet were added.

I met Piers after owning my own AD GT +Cwest Rx7. I'm sure we would have followed similar tuning If I'd met him earlier.

RE-Amemiya AD is simly awesome. SSR Type C wheels are UBER COOL.

Sunline's original Bonnet is a cheaper version of the AutoExe design that does a great job of venting bonnet temp.

The car was so good that it was selected as a feature car for SSR wheel company and it adorned the pages of option Magazine and others for some time. This car is used for regular track meets in Japan where piers can tune his driving skills and simply have fun racing GTRs and the like.

He regularly runs in the Meister cup and recently got his first class podium on the track.

You can read a lot more of the evolution of this car on this thread

Inside the car remains streetable. Only the battery box gets in the way of shopping. Carpet remains.

Unfortunately with the evolution of Piers' Carbon R34 the FD was sucking funds, so it was sold.

Something this good was for sale later.

It's legacy will be around for some time.

Russ.

Touge Time

The Summer Touge run in Hakkone area saw us travel over our favoirite roads. With view of Mt Fuji, the weather couldn't have been better for the trip in the mountains. Empty roads allowed a great day of "cruising".

Our route included. Tomei -> Odawara, Toyo Turnpike, downhill to nantoka Parkway, Izu Skyline --> end Golf Course Loop Road, Return Izu Skyline, Ashinoko Skyline -> Gotanba, Tomei -> C1 -> Higashi Kanto.

With my car in the shop getting paint and panel, I again thank www.NeweraImports.com for the drive. Battling cars on the day included, Newera FD & AE86, Mines GTR, Tomei AE86, S-tyre R34GTR & R33GTRs and a Supra. Oh yeah, don't forget the Sunline Racing Carbon GTR!

A long but fabulous day for driving an FD. More pics are here on the GTR Forum.

Russ.

Rotary 40th Anniversay

Happy birthday celebrations for the birthday of the rotary engine. Mazda will probably track you with these new web widgets.

Japanese Web Site
http://www.mazda.co.jp/philosophy/rotary/

English Web Site
http://www.mazda.com/mazdaspirit/rotary/index.html

Russ.

1/10 Drift Update

I have been drifting a bit more recently, and luckily I think I am improving. I am still yet to try to get a good set-up for the car, but its still addictive fun. I took it down to Daikoku the other night and realised that all black was a bit boring to see at night even with the active light kit. So I added the metallic red stickers from the apexi sticker set. Looks more aggressive now. I also got two blue LEDs for the yokomo active light kit so there are no spare head light holes. Well, except the parking lights.

I also haven't put the hachi rocku body on the chassis for ages so I think its time to cut the body posts. I have no plans to run any other bodies on this chassis anyway. I think this one will stay until its falling apart. I installed the RE-A mirrors also from a GT Wing set I had and finished the windscreen wipers. The next step involves making a rear diffuser.

Russ.

RE-Xtreme Ryuga Concept

There has been a lot of talk about the next Rx7. If something is to surpass the FD it should be the design that has been circulating in the last year. The Ryuga. It is an amazing design but the rear hatch should be returned to a similar hatch design for two seats only.

If you were in doubt about how good it will look then don't doubt. It's good, although one could say it needs some tuning! So I started with photoshop tune.

So here's the spec we want. Renesis 20b-MSP with at least 380ps @ 8500rpm

I have added the carbon front spoiler from the Porsche Le Mans prototype and the side skirts are modified RE-Amemiya GT AD.

I'll definately take one of these.

Russ.

Thanks - ありがとう

みんな。こんにちわ。私の名前はラッセルです。
ＦＤがすきです。日本語はわるい、でもがんばっています。
東京にすんでいます。
ありがとう1000人ブログに見る。
ＦＤをメ－ルではなしましょう！
今年私のＦＤチューニング開始。

Hi Everyone, Russell here.
I love the FD, My Japanese is not so good, but I try my best.
I am living in Tokyo and thanks to the 1000 people for looking at my blog.
Let’s talk about the FD by mail.
This year, my FD tuning has started.

russellgander007@hotmail.com

Russ.

Videos

I added some videos to the right hand side to become a permanent part of the Blog.

Someone uploaded them to You Tube and there are many more. Do a search for "Best Motoring", "Hot Version", "FD3s" and "Rx7" and kiss your bandwidth goodbye.

I have the originals of these and If you like them I hope you do the same as me and aquire genuine copies to support the people who make them. Other wise they stop.

These are some of my favourites and you will love them. I have already clicked on them 20 times in the first hour!

Russ.

RC Drift - FD Ver II

Mounted the body and installed the lights. I am using another set of wheels for drifting and I am keeping these Advan RS wheels fresh for display. I still need to install an intercooler in the front and add a few small stickers but its basically finished.

It drifts well, you can see two really dark, low quality videos here but they quite abient... The first is small drifting with Lights and the second is a standing light Display

The Yokomo active light kit is cool. The lights flash randomly when you are stopped and the hazards come on after 3 seconds. When you drive the lights blink faster. They are pretty bright and definately get attention at night.

Russ.

RC Drift FD Version II

Yokomo was sold out of Drift Package Rx7's when I bought my Chassis , but now I have set up my next body.

Yokomo Apex D1 / Vertex Ridge widebody FD body set + Yokomo RE-Amemiya Real Light Kit + Yokomo Active LED Light kit + Yokomo Advan RS wheels - D1 sticker set = 1 very impressive looking RC Car. The fact that it will replicate my real car in some ways has me very excited about the next project.

The Active light kits is similar to D1 lights that flash sequentially.

When the car stops the hazards come on. Cant wait to drill the mounting holes and try it out.

I wonder If I can resist putting some of the mettalic red stickers from the apexi set on the car.

Stay tuned for a small movie of the light kit and the car in action.

Russ.